13:53:41Apocalyptic:"the decision to postpone the event was a direct result of a ?negative response from government authorities? or more specifically, The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the FSB"

14:15:05bitcoinpete:;;later tell wywialm thx for reading. i suspect that both prices and wages are downward rigid. the effect of this will be the necessary checking of egos. hunger will loosen up that rigidity before long. the human competitive streak will soon come out --> renaissance.

14:31:30bitcoinpete:“We believe that all of the expenses the SEC was complaining of were permitted by the limited partnership agreements and Delaware law,” said Aegis Frumento, a partner at Stern Tannenbaum & Bell LLP in New York, who represents Brittenham and the firm. “We have every confidence at the end of the day that these charges will not be found to have been fraudulent under the Investors Advisers Act.”

16:03:42bounce:take a piece of land, try and put a building on it. some places the paperwork can easily take 200+ forms and 10+ years. so people just start to build and rent out the building without bothering with the paperwork. it's a risk, but, you know.

16:03:43bitcoinpete:just like the medical system treats symptoms like cancer instead of the root causes, like shitty food

16:05:13bitcoinpete:keeps the barriers to entry high and the entrenched players comfy and content

16:11:00bitcoinpete:asciilifeform: give them a little bunk next to the captain's

16:11:03asciilifeform:the permanent crew are pros - afaik, in all modern countries

16:12:12bounce:many, many places. generally the places with large informal economies

16:12:20bitcoinpete:Namworld: california maybe? i hear their paperwork is nuts

16:13:26ThickAsThieves:"Better yet: if the Bitcoin community managed to change the protocol to increase the rate that miners can “unlock” new coins… Bitcoin might have a built-in incentive to both adopt the currency and report taxable earnings. Let’s say that we accepted an inflationary Bitcoin, much like we have an inflationary dollar, around 2 or 3% annualized. At the end of the year, a consistently

16:13:27ThickAsThieves:inflating bitcoin would trigger no capital gains liability, only capital losses, reducing the tax liability of the filer."

16:27:46bitcoinpete:"George Kikvadze, board member and advisor of BitFury, said Monday that if the notion of a finite number of bitcoins was ever altered it would be fair and should not undermine the value."

20:12:17Mats_cd03:kakobrekla: whoever posts it first on their blog can has it, i figure mp will write a fraudsters post eventually

20:12:46Mats_cd03:As of 7APR2014 16:37:00GMT, BitBet has a total balance of 2889.82820674 BTC with outstanding liabilities of 1753.6619918169 BTC. In total, 8874 addresses have deposited funds (http://pastebin.com/8L6706Y7), and there are currently 93 open bets with deposits totaling 1771.37574931 BTC (http://pastebin.com/dLaHuZnC). After operating for little more than a

20:12:46Mats_cd03:year, BitBet has accumulated 1136.1662149231001 BTC in revenue. I used Beautiful Soup (a Python library designed for screen scraping) to pull table data (BTC addresses, quantity deposited) and looked up address balances with blockr.io’s API. If you wish to reproduce these results with Python, I would recommend using the Requests library, which is superior

20:12:46Mats_cd03:to urllib2. Readers are encouraged to verify this data.

20:28:26punkman:"I want a gambling slot app that looks fancy and runs smoothly. It will accept bitcoins. The app will also have a back end that controls the odds in realtime. The reason for this app is that my wife is addicted to gambiling & I would like To keep the bitcoins."

20:37:56Namworld:That's not how you quit. Guy will just get in trouble for it, playing in his wife's back like that.

20:38:48punkman:I'm wondering if the woman is gambling with btc in the first place

20:39:00punkman:or if the dude thinks that's a good idea to introduce to her

20:39:53Namworld:If he controls odds and she's never losing everything... gonna look weird. "I never win big yet I never lose my balance. Been going for 2 trillion bets. What are the odds?"

20:40:45Namworld:Guy: I'll just pretend my wife has issues, maybe someone develops me a gambling app for cheaper that way? So much profits for me!

20:42:03Namworld:Guy: Maybe if I get my wife hooked up on MY app, I won't have to quit her for losing all our money. I can also get her hooked on me giving her back the gambling money to fuel the habit! What could go wrong?

20:43:07Namworld:I can't see any way whatever he wants to achieve wouldn't be somewhat retarded to completly retarded.

21:37:00kakobrekla:the only way i know of to backup that key Mats_cd03 is to plug the cable on the transporter in the middle of the energizing sequence so while the object is already completely scanned it is not yet disintegrated, the rest of the procedure is prolly clear.

21:37:43mircea_popescu:kakobrekla key's stored in an eeprom. it's not THAT easy to lose.

21:49:58ThickAsThieves:lol, ironically about 10 years ago I was speaking with the head of the local Chamber of Commerce and she asked me what I thought of blogs (as PR really). I told her I thought they were silly.

22:19:24mircea_popescu:bounce like half the people live their entire lives within 50 miles of their pob or some shit ?

22:21:28mircea_popescu:bitcoinpete: just like the medical system treats symptoms like cancer instead of the root causes, like shitty food << yey verily. compare cancer epidemiologic data in the soviet union in 1963 with same in the us in 2013. be amazed. be very amazed.

22:21:45mircea_popescu:and they were using DTT and azbocement wtf you call it and so on.

22:23:36mircea_popescu:"At the end of the year, a consistently inflating bitcoin would trigger no capital gains liability, only capital losses, reducing the tax liability of the filer."

22:23:45mircea_popescu:ThickAsThieves who is this powerfully retarded ranger ?

22:24:40asciilifeform:mircea_popescu: they're actually stepped up the discussion to include the word murder << it was time to switch cover stories, the old one was getting tired

22:24:44mircea_popescu:because only on the tardstalk forum can one accidentally selfcrit himself on the jagged shards of irony for more 9000s of damage.

22:24:57asciilifeform:and now there's a convenient 'desperado' who 'we know did it'

22:46:01asciilifeform:the purpose of impossibly-hard targets isn't necessarily to protect valuables, but can be simply to torment the enemy

22:47:45mircea_popescu:well the purpose of rotting pig carcasses with vaginas painted on the skin isn't so very different.

22:49:00mircea_popescu:Namworld: That's not how you quit. Guy will just get in trouble for it, playing in his wife's back like that. < i agree. add a steel pole to your pool, chain her to the base. she can eat once every 100 laps.

22:49:25mircea_popescu:after one million laps not only is she cured of whatevet you disliked, but also has a superb posterior.

22:51:05mircea_popescu:but anyway, the guy is obviously trying to have someone write him a scamsite. found a decent pretext, but it's about as convincing as what kids trying to get you to do their homework come up with.

23:12:48mircea_popescu:"Meghan Kellison-Lords is a writer and activist from Pensacola, FL. She is the editor at Bitcoin Not Bombs, a writer at Young Voices and Bitcoin Magazine, office manager at Roberts and Roberts Brokerage, and volunteer at Sean?s Outpost Homeless Outreach. She is fascinated by"

23:36:41mircea_popescu:just derpage about how "Law and Policy Steering Committee Information Started by Lindsay Holland Law and Policy Committee Chair: Mike Hearn Contact email for Chair: mhearn@bitcoinfoundation.org"

23:37:35mircea_popescu:i mean herp mcderp, what can i tell you, birocratia maxima, some derp goes to target, buys a red stapler and an "Important Person" bumper sticker and suddenly we have yet another... important person with a red stapler.

23:38:10mircea_popescu:it was better back when wikipedia retardation was mostly content to quarantine itself on wikipedia. but by now it's spilling the fuck over.

23:44:13mircea_popescu:ThickAsThieves so same goes to you then, ask vehehes a) how much did karpeles pay him to promote his scam ? and b) how much of the muppets' donations to "the foundation" went to his girlfriend.